You know at the risk of starting a huge flamewar here (tho I doubt it'll
happen - people seem really reasonable on this list) I'm going to put in
my $0.02 for not just learning vi, but becoming fluent with it:
1. It's universally available.
2. Once you really learn it, it is the fastest editor out there. However,
learning vi takes patience and practice. My two suggestions for becoming
a vi wizard are these:
Go "cold turkey"
only use vi for text editing on every system you use.
Perfect practice makes perfect
don't manually insert 20 lines of #-characters to
comment out a section of perl when :25,45s/^/# will do.
The latter is true of anything worth practicing (i'm a professional
musician) and it applies especially well with vi (or other text editors)
You need to always ask yourself when learning "How can I do this faster,
or with fewer keystrokes?" Instead of holding down that arrow key to move
to the 5th line down, hit 5j. Or use markers to leave a trail through a
long document. After forcing yourself to think twice before editing, the
commands will seem like second nature, and you'll get editing tasks done
much quicker. You'll begin to wonder why people even waste their time
with a mouse to edit text.
One side effect of using vi and perl is that you get a double dose of
regular expression experience, and you'll find yourself inventing ways of
doing boring repetivive tasks either entirely in vi or with vi and perl
combined. That's when things get real fun :-)
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Daryl J. Hoyt wrote:
> I use vi only when nothing else is available. ;->
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: anton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 8:08 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Re: Editor
>
>
> I've listen to you all about the editors problem
> Is anybody out there still using the old bottom-dweller vi ?
>
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 14:48:53 +0200, Matija Papec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > "Aigner-Torres, Mario" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Hi Bill,
> > >
> > >my choice is gnuemacs
> >
> > Does it support script debugging? I'm looking for nice *nix editor
> > /debugger with breakpoints, step execution, etc. Have you tried
> > PerlComposer?
> >
> > >with cperl!
> >
> > What is cperl?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Matija
>
